NEW HAMPSHIRE
The situation in New Hampshire is much the same as in neighboring Vermont, but a higher level of government control is evident, especially in the urban areas. The main body of the New Hampshire National Guard is based out of the state capital Concord and is actively engaged in anti-bandit operations.
1) NUCLEAR TARGETS
None.
2) ORGANIZED MILITARY FORCES
The New Hampshire National Guard has a current strength of 2,000 men, with the majority of the manpower being in the Concord-Manchester-Portsmouth triangle.
3) THE STATE AT LARGE
Concord: Home of the state government and the bulk of the National Guard, including the state's remaining operational armor assets--six M41 Walker Bulldog tanks and five M8 Greyhound armored cars.
Portsmouth's nuke: On October 29, 1962, a 4 megaton Titan I ICBM landed near Portsmouth, fired originally from the Ellsworth complex in South Dakota. The missile malfunctioned and did not separate in the upper reaches of the atmosphere as it was supposed to. Instead it landed on the beach on the east side of a small island off Portsmouth virtually intact. On low tide days the battered rusting missile is still visible buried in the sand. The locals avoid it like the plague, although lately they are beginning to realize that it might be a goldmine if they can salvage the warhead. Portsmouth itself is now a small fishing community struggling to survive by remaining hidden. There are no militia troops in the area except a couple companies of young boys, armed with little more than rifles and a couple of bazookas. Led by the headmasters of a local military school for boys, they are a hindrance at best to the defenders. An alarm battalion of conscripted refugees, stiffened with some men from a National Guard engineer company. The militia battalion in reality musters no more than 113 men. They have three sorts of machine guns, including several Russian ones, a flame-thrower lacking essential parts, three Spanish pistols, and 28 rifles in six different calibers.
Nashua: Once a thriving survivor city, but now virtually abandoned by the state government as too much expense to defend, Nashua was been wracked by food rioting the past year, killing off much of the surviving population.
Keene: Home base of the "Army of Vermont and New Hampshire", known mostly as the "ARVEN". This semi-legitimate militia group is made up of conscripted scum with higher-trained recon units. The core of the group comes from the remnants of the 1st Battalion/172d Artillery Regiment, a New Hampshire National Guard unit that was stationed in southern New Hampshire on the eve of the war. They have maintained many of their vehicles and possibly have a tank or two saved for a special purpose. As well, they have a paddle-wheeler riverboat that they use along the Connecticut River. There are too many people and too many settlements in the area for them to control and tax to keep them operational.
Newcomers: Canadian troops are beginning to cross the border in the north. Since communications are so bad and the land is so empty, the Canadians are slowly working their way furthers south looking for salvage and hunting bandits. The troops here are mostly from the garrison of Sherbrooke, Quebec and include elements of the Lake Superior Scottish Regiment and the Royal Canadian Regiment. There is some thought of eventually annexing the northern part of the state at some point. These incursions are being monitored and sometimes forcibly opposed by a few a small contingent of National Guardsmen, citizen militiamen and drafted US Forest Service officers.
Rochester: This once thriving industrial town is now the home of several large marauder bands, including the "Iroquois Rangers" from Massachusetts and the "New Jacobites".
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